It can be fun to imagine what it was like when dinosaurs were alive on Earth, lurking under the water, defending their territories on land and soaring through the sky. But wait, that imaginary ...

An international group of researchers from the University of Leicester (UK), and the Geological Institute, Beijing (China) have identified a new type of flying reptile – providing the first clear ...

Pterosaurs, informally called " pterodactyls," were flying reptiles that ruled the skies when dinosaurs dominated the land. However, new research has discovered that pterosaurs diversified during the ...

Editor’s Note: Science has transformed our understanding of dinosaurs in the past two decades. Get caught up with what’s new in this five-part CNN series. One close glimpse of a modern bird, ...

Scientists examined hundreds of birds in museum collections and discovered a suite of feather characteristics that all flying birds have in common. These 'rules' provide clues as to how the dinosaur ...

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Birds can fly— at least, most of them can. Flightless birds like penguins and ostriches have evolved lifestyles that don’t require flight. However, there’s a lot that scientists don’t know about how ...

Apparently there were even more dinosaurs flying the fearsome skies. “Scientists have discovered three new species of flying reptiles that lived in the Sahara 100 [million] years ago,” according to ...

The body composition of two, tiny, bat-like dinosaurs made them more likely to be fallers than fliers, to paraphrase Littlefoot. Yi qi and Ambopteryx longibrachium used their wings to glide – just not ...

The first dinosaurs to take to the air were a failed evolutionary experiment. They had wings made of a skin membrane, similar to bats, but they were bad at flying and were soon outcompeted by birds.

Only two dinosaur species are known to have had wings made out of stretched skin, like bats. But unlike bats, these dinos were capable of only limited gliding between trees, a new anatomical analysis ...